https://theloop.ecpr.eu/announcing-the-loops-inaugural-best-blog-prize/
Reginald Oduor's essay, "How Elections Stifle Democracy in Kenya", has won the ECPR's inaugural best blog prize (for 2022). The selection committee for the prize celebrated Oduor's essay as follows:
"We wish to honour Reginald MJ Odour’s unique challenge to Western political thought. He argues, powerfully and clearly, that assumptions about democratic processes remain deeply colonialist, presuming that good governance relies on individualism and grows from contests between opposing views. Reginald challenges the presumed centrality of elections. He makes us understand that democracy can instead grow from consultation and consensus – and that, in Kenya, elections actually undermine democracy."
I couldn't agree more. Reginald Oduor's excellent essay (available here: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/how-elections-stifle-democracy-in-kenya/) brings to the front a body of criminally underappreciated scholarship which shows how problematic elections can be for the more consultative- and consensus-seeking types of democracy in the world.
Do you agree/disagree that elections are overvalued?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/announcing-the-loops-inaugural-best-blog-prize/
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